it looks like a big Samsung phone I used
the tab S8 Ultra as a phone
I don't know what is this this isn't even the tablet box I'm unboxing the
Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra and you gave me the box for the the case the case is so cool
I'm having trouble controlling my emotions so the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra I
think it's kind of Samsung's attempt at making like an iPad Pro type of thing
iPads have been really great recently in
my opinion but Android tablets have sucked for quite a while like when's the
last time someone showed you an Android tablet and you're like wow I I would
want to purchase that almost never I
this already open like I don't even have to open the box it's just like Loops
just like dude I wouldn't let this happen on
tackling
I would let everything else happen
oh well that is a big boy
14.6 inch screen that's how that's like
a Macbook size Apple's out here trying to tell you to use an iPad as your
computer meanwhile Samsung is like we just literally took the screen off of
one of our laptops and made it a tablet yo what is the aspect ratio on this too
it's like is it 16x9 I'm gonna clean the screen with the banana it's not just for
scale uh so let's look at the exterior real
quick because that's what John always wants me to do this is kind of like a
matte metallic finish on the back we got the uh sort of an iPad like rounded
Square Edge Corner thing going on here you got that Andy can I show that to you
so that's interesting to see Samsung not
really emulate their own phone design so much as they're emulating Apple's
current iPhone and iPad design with this like Square Edge thing going on although
it seems to me like maybe they're improving look at this
thing it's huge although this is the tab S8 Ultra right there's the tab S8 plus
which is 12.4 inches and then the tab S8
non-plus non-ultra the lowest end which is 11 inches so those are kind of more
normal tablet sizes but I like I like
how big this is on this side we got a power button looks like and a volume
rocker probably a microphone uh SIM card
slot because this is a what SD card okay
we've confirmed it's a Micro SD card slot and not a SIM card slot no data on
this thing that's too bad iPads can have data Samsung on the bottom or the side
or whatever I mean it's the tablets are confusing uh there's two speakers over
here and I guess two speakers on the other side there's four full speakers in
this one just like the iPad Pro a USB-C Port which we have determined is a USB
3.2 gen
gen 1 what they probably mean to put is
USB 3.2 gen 1 X1 that's five gigabits per
second it's not the 10 gigabits one I'm pretty sure hey USB figure out your
like it wasn't it's not irritating to me until I actually have to deal with it
again and then I forget about it I'm like oh yeah USB that's kind of dumb and then I have to like find out how fast
the USB port is and I'm like God damn it this is stupid on the bottom we got what
looks like Samsung's version of a SMART connector for like accessories and stuff
and on the back we got these antenna
lines why do you need antenna lines like that if you don't have network connectivity
oh the fancy Wi-Fi's are here
so the tab
s but the tab S8 plus which we don't have
has an option for 5G connectivity so the
top end model cannot have 5G but if you
downgrade to the mid tier option then you can upgrade the mid tier option to a
5G model apparently why don't they wait what's the processor
in this is the Snapdragon 8 gen 1 why don't they all have 5G by default they
should support I mean obviously like they have to put in the the actual like
antenna and stuff but like come on you got the antennas right here
set there's a magnetic uh attachment for
the S Pen which is pretty cool that it like goes right on the tablet although I
guess that's nice if you're like carrying it around the office or something you just need to like quickly
do that but if you're putting that in your bag that's coming off okay let's
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moving does it have tap double tap to wake for some reason like I just expect
that to be on every device but some people are like no whatever device it's
like it should so the most important thing with the tablet probably is like
the image right let's let's go straight to that then let's go straight to
Youtube or something see this is funny this is like a little
message saying this app is using the full screen the homeback and recent
buttons are hidden to minimize distractions and to prevent
you from leaving the app accidentally how do I get to I can't do the regular
multitasking menu okay oh I didn't even notice it's got the notch too this is
the tablet where they they put in the MacBook MacBook notch like crab Rave is
nice but I should like like what's something beautiful have we done
something beautiful in a bit
damn dude so it's not mini OLED like is
in the like what's in the latest iPad Pro but ammo LED still looks damn fine
especially at the resolution of 2960 by 1848
oh look at the colors the colors and the
and the sharpness is like really there for me crab rave
that's grimy dude that's grimy dude
maybe pause this is crazy why would you want something
this big why wouldn't you I came over
here because I could hear it it sounded like you were playing something on the TV yeah dude from the speakers over in
the other set these are pretty good for like a tablet speakers yeah and it's so
thin so in conclusion the speakers are
freaking sick for a tablet holy crap I like felt the base on them so they uh
there's four of them and they were tuned by AKG so apparently this display 120
hertz HDR 10 plus
as for uh performance I mean like so
this is still an Android tablet now the the Apple has really made a case
recently for turning their iPad from
like changing it from a mobile device into like a fun and work device and the
thing about Android tablets is that Google hasn't really had to do a lot to
like add that functionality into Android because it was always sort of there so
it's it's it's interesting to now be faced with like a pro class Android
tablet that's like yeah you can do what
all Android tablets can do but I guess like it'll come down to if their
performance can keep up with it because that is really the thing that Apple still has over Android tablets is the
fact that they are running you know M1 processors now how do I split screen
boom and then what else should I open YouTube
that's sort of annoying to me that you're in split screen but it doesn't
actually use the whole screen it's got these rounded corners on the bottom
would it do that if I got rid of the navigation thing on the bottom Maybe
that's already a A plus over the iPad with the S Pen you can actually use it
for navigation like it's a instead of
only having the pen be useful the apple pencil be useful for some things on the
iPad Jonathan
you sound like Jerry Seinfeld ah yes
swipe just oh you can switch between having the recents on either side
there's so much customization in Android I I've been using an Android phone for a
day uh and it's amazing what I learned you're switching to Android for
permanent no no way
I will be switching Android to try it
out to then understand why
yeah sure dude I'm the person who thinks the iPad Pro 12.9 is too big oh really
yeah I made the opposite argument I like that there is this option because if
there are people who want to use a tablet as their like main device then
this is a great option I mean I like I like that there is a tablet this big for
some there's something like visceral Jake he's Rich Jake starts his car up he
purposely makes his car louder yeah why you know the M5 has a great exhaust note
out of the factory it doesn't need to sound like that at
idle I just need to make that clear
hey what's that computer that is a laptop of the screen comes off oh my God
how many honest do we need you're different you're not searching up my
question I am oh it's showing it that's horrible have you tried the iOS version
of that no scribble yeah is it good no
well that's you should the magic Keepers what were we talking about before that
you had it no you had what you had one good point part of this argument before
the before you got interrupted by a ruined M5 Android can be pretty close to
an operator uh desktop operator oh yeah closer than iPad OS
you can do anything you want in Android well I'm gonna find that out when I try
it when I try it out now that this is here I feel like we should do a video on
like can you use because we did iPad Pro can use an iPad Pro as a PC we should do
a video and can use this as a piece well that is a great LTT video no we have one
last thing you're glad that this exists that
Samsung has made a huge tablet well
where's the tiny Mini phone I wish that there were more small
Android touch screen phones you know thank you
on the topic of using a tablet as a
desktop operating system this thing all like the S8 the S8 plus and the S8 Ultra
all come with eight gigs of RAM and uh 128 and 256 gig storage options but the
S8 Ultra you can also up the RAM to 12 gigs and 16 gigs as well and then
there's also a five 512 gig storage option so like you can spec this thing
out like a crazy amount although it starts just the 8 gig and 128 gig config
starts at 1100 is that what you said for the most part I just I want
companies to keep making these so that they can exist as sort of like a
demo of what the technology is capable of I haven't really tested the
performance in any like meaningful way although one thing I will say right away
oh no okay I thought that it didn't preserve your
split screen instance but it does because iPad os does that as well
there's an 11 200 milliamp hour battery do we know how long Samsung thinks
that's supposed to last go for hours over hours I mean
it's been on for how long it's at 80 I didn't see what it was at at the
beginning editor you will know
start scanning with the center of your finger oh it's down here this is a good
position to have this in because I guess if you're like if you are using the
tablet like that that sort of makes sense but most people I mean most of the time
you're going to be using it like this so it's right where your finger is or your thumb is wait does it know when I pick
it up pick up my tablet and it doesn't wake right away I can
double tap though and do that now I'm looking at this case because I haven't
looked at it yet this is interesting so without the case it's a magnetic dock
but with the case it's got like a little rubber doohickey to keep it in place as
well this case is 50 bucks still pretty steep for a for a case but I mean look
it's a tablet case and it does seem like pretty good Construction
the ultra one is 70. this is seventy
dollars yeah okay so what I just said but worse
so that's nice like that that feels like a surface surface pro level almost
cameras okay that is something that's interesting about this this is Samsung
this is their high end tablet so I got big expectations they
don't even have it right on the front thing oh it's right here okay I just I'm
unfamiliar with the Samsung icons okay
wow yo uh the preview here looks pretty
rough I mean the yeah like the color and the
sharpness is not quite there double tap power button and we get a camera
shortcut so that's nice geez Louise look at look at how big that
screen is I mean like I feel like I'm shooting a movie or something
um okay so we got the ultra wide as well
though wow yeah that that doesn't look great
jono I mean it's only a 12 megapixel but
like I feel like that's worse even than normal smartphone cameras these days I
I'm not surprised that they you know were trying to save a little bit of money still on like it's like
tablets not many people are buying them you don't feel the need to like put like
the best camera on there but still like this is an eleven hundred dollar tablet
so there's the normal length and we got oh we got two
cameras here that I did not mention as well correction correction these are
both 12 megapixels on the back we got a 13 megapixel and a
six megapixel Ultra wide so that's why when the I took the ultra wide shot
right there it was particularly bad because that's only a six megapixel
camera yeah this is more like what I would
expect from a you know modern smartphone camera it's still a little bit fuzzier
than I have seen on some other cameras but it's a little you know that's more
along the lines of what I would expect so conclusion time I think I'm just
happy to see that Android tablets are back in the market with like good
quality units and I'm not saying you should go out and buy these I think it
just makes me happy because like iPads have dominated anytime people have
talked about tablets you know you're talking about iPads unless you're like
my father-in-law who refuses to buy new
technology and it will only shop on eBay or Craigslist for like used stuff and
he's like I bought this new tablet for twenty dollars I'm like
but maybe that's all you need and so that's fair but for people who are
looking for a little bit more out of their Android uh tablets this is nice to
see your father-in-law has three iPads yeah so then there's other types of
people who just like buy a ton of iPads because they think that that's the only tablet you can get more Android tablets
are good in my book even if this one is probably overpriced although I don't
even know it's eleven hundred dollars that's what the flagship phones are these days and this is a like a 15 inch
thing it's probably not overpriced for what it is honestly it just for 1100 all
I really want is the option to have five that's true but then it would be more
expensive the S8 plus is 900 and it's
got the 12.4 inch screen the S8 is 700
and it's got the 11 inch screen so if I
was to say which one of these you should probably probably buy it would probably
be the S8 although this is not a recommendation this is not a review it's
an unboxing and uh hopefully we take a deeper look at these uh units in other
Linus Media Group channels properties
TechLink will do a review go watch this go watch the tech longer if it's out it
might be out by now and I guess subscribe to ShortCircuit if you really
want to that's the end
is pontificating the iPad's for the finger some people like the fingers some
people like the pen